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COOL :: Summer invitational
Jul 10 - Aug 15, 2008
Opening reception: Thursday, July 10, 6-8 pm
A New York Flavors Ice Cream performance tonight only at the opening of a show called "Cool" at the George Adams Gallery in Chelsea. I will be serving a new New York Flavored Ice Cream "34th St Herald Square" (kimuchi !). -- miwa
The opening Thursday July 10th from 6-8pm.
525 West 26th Street First Floor New York, New York 10001
Five Elements :: Group Sculpture Exhibition
July 9 - Aug 18, 2008
Opening reception: July 11th 6 - 9PM
The second show is called "Five Elements" at Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art in Williamsburg. It is a group sculpture show and I am showing two glass domes with PETs inside. The opening is on Friday July 11 at 6:00pm, but I can't be there because I am leaving for a week in the snowy mountains !! -- Miwa
293 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211
On Going
Waste Not, Want Not :: Recycled Materials
May 4th to August 3rd 2008
Miwa is presenting a new installation of her PET Project in a group show at Socrates Sculpture Park
The opening day is Sunday May 4th
A group exhibition interpreting and responding to the motivations, goals, realities, politics, and practices of recycling
May 4 - August 3, 2008 Opening Reception: Sunday, May 4 / 2-6 PM at Socrates Sculpture Park
Artists:
Jonathan Allen The Canary Project (Annie Murdock, Ed Morris, Jussara Lee) Tony Feher Lars Fisk Miwa Koizumi Rainy Lehrman Carole Frances Lung Julian Montague Macrae Semans Austin Shull Courtney Smith Shinique Smith Jade Townsend & Michael Petersen Paul Villinski Letha Wilson Randy Wray

Recent
Artists Alliance :: Artist's Residency
December 2007 through June 2008

Miwa has been granted a residency at the Artists Alliance / Alianza de Artistas, in the Lower East Side. If you are in the neighborhood please stop by for a studio visit.
Fragiles :: by Die Gestalten
December 6 - 9, 2007
One of Miwa's PET Project aquariums is included in a group show called Fragiles, put together by Die Gestalten which was on display at Design Miami.
UPDATE: the Fragiles show is traveling all over the world. It was up for several weeks in Belgium at the Gallery 113 from February to March 2008. It will soon be installed in Dubai at the new Dubai International Financial Centre in November 2008
There will be a book release party for the book Fragiles at the Salone del Mobile in Milan on April 18th at Spazzio Rosanna Orlandi from 6 - 9 PM
Kite Flight :: Plastic Play
Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Hi all Miwa and I have been invited to participate in the annual kite making day at Socrates. We'll be showing everyone how to make the shopping bag kites. The goal is to get as many shopping bags into the sky as possible to come on down!
From the Press Release:
Long Island City, NY (March 10, 2008) : Socrates Sculpture Park and The Noguchi Museum are proud to present the sixth annual kite making workshop and flying event. This free hands-on workshop will take place at Socrates Sculpture Park and welcomes children of all ages to participate. This year, children and their families will find an excellent new use for plastic bags by transforming this durable, and light weight material into beautiful recycled kites! Kite designs are provided by artists Miwa Koizumi and Marco Scoffier who will draw inspiration from the Park's fantastic view of the Manhattan skyline. Participants will have the opportunity to build and decorate their kites, then fly them in the Park. (more)
Press
Our page about the Kite Project
UMAMI Festival :: Gastronomic Interactive Installations
Monday, April 14 @ 7PM and Tuesday, April 15th @ 8PM
Miwa will be creating a few new flavors for her NY Flavors Ice Cream Stand during this festival of all things food and performance. There are rumors of a possible Lower East Side (lox and bagels) ice cream creation.
Echoing the experience of a New York
street scene, we present a variety of smells, sounds, and
sights, co-existing and competing for attention. Familiar
objects, from ice cream to cookbooks, are presented in new
and unexpected ways. As street vendors offer exotic twists
on common products, screenings of artists' food films and a
display of artists' cookbooks complete the carnival
atmosphere.
Tickets include admission to Experimental Cuisine Collective panel on Mon April 14th @ 4PM or to Food/Art Roundtable on Tue April 15th @ 6PM
NYNYNY :: so nice we named it thrice
December 14, 2007 through January 2008
SuperSpa :: transformation through edible treatments
Sept. 28, 2007 - Jan. 13, 2008
"SuperSpa" was presented as
part of Making a Home:
Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York at the Japan
Society this Fall.
"SuperSpa" is Miwa's spa/food performance. which pokes fun at the American culture of "zen" spa treatments, herbal/organic transformations and professional wrestling.
LIC NYC :: Shipwreck
May 6 - Aug 5 2007
@ Socrates
Opening Sunday May 6th, 2007 2-6pm
We are participating in Shipwreck, Flux Factory's project at Socrates Sculpture Park this summer.
FLUX FACTORY
Jean Barberis, Mikey Barringer, Jason David Brown, Paul Burn, Daupo, Andrea Dezso, Kerry Downey, Ellie Ga, Christy Gast, Stefany Anne Golberg, Chris Hackett, Aya Kakeda, Miwa Koizumi, Ruby Kwon, Fabienne Lasserre, Marie Lorenz, Eleanor Lovinsky, Brian Matthews, Morgan Meis, Ian Montgomery, Nick Normal, Adrian Owen, Douglas Paulson, Annie Reichert, Duke Reilly, Anthony Rhoads, Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Ksenya Samarskaya, Marco Scoffier, David Felix Sutcliffe
Wishing Factory :: My Ritual
Feb. 15th- April 13th 2007
Miwa is in a two person show called "My Country" at the Hungarian Cultural Center in SOHO. She has created a new installation called "My ritual : Wishing Factory". There will be a food performance for the closing party on April 13th.
Opening reception Feb. 15th 6-9pm
Gallery hours Mon-Fri 9-5pm or weekends by
appointment
447 Broadway (near Canal St.)
5th floor
Manhattan, NYC
212 750 4450
www.culturehungary.org
HotLine :: art by cellphone
Always on! call now!
PET Project :: Photography
Digital Archival Prints available
Miwa has been invited to show a new series of PETs which she created (with new and improved heating tools !) this summer . She has also made an aquarium for the PETs which will be on display. And she will be showing some new large format photographs of the PETs (one of which is above).
Opening reception Friday Oct. 13 6-9pm
Gallery hours Thurs-Sun 1-7pm or by
appointment
126a Front Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.222 1054
www.spring3d.net
F train to York St. One block to Front St.
kite project :: DUMBO Arts Festival
Fall 2006
On a beautiful, sunny and windy Sunday Oct. 15th as part of the DUMBO Arts Festival, Miwa and Marco will be making and flying kites made from shopping bags in the Brooklyn Bridge Park (number 2 on the map). Against the astounding backdrop of lower Manhattan, we will be harnessing the power of the wind to send shopping bags into the atmosphere. We will be in the park from 1-4pm (weather permitting). There are many interesting things going on around DUMBO this weekend so come on down.
When: Sunday Oct. 15 1-4pm
Brooklyn Bridge Park
DUMBO
F train to York St. 3 blocks to the Park.
number 2 on the Festival
map
Around the Flat :: Flat to Round
May 18th- July 2006
@ Spring
Read the Press Release
Our friend, the extremely talented and funky Elodie Blanchard helped to curate this show at Spring where all the works are 2D turned into 3D. Miwa will be showing an extravagantly long and golden "Electric Vine"
Opening reception Sunday May 21st 6-9pm
Gallery hours Thurs-Sun 1-7pm or by
appointment
126a Front Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.222 1054
www.spring3d.net
F train to York St. One block to Front St.
Block Party Brooklyn :: 14 Townhouses
May 12th - August 2006
An award winning townhouse in downtown Brooklyn (on of the first row of townhouses built in the 5 boroughs since the 1920's) is filled with Brooklyn based Artists and Designers, and Miwa's Plaster Liquid Crystal.
You can always see more of Plaster Liquid Crystal at BDDW
(from blockpartybrooklyn.com)
During BRKLYN Designs weekend shuttle buses will run from St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn and from Union Square in Manhattan to 267A State Street (Corner of Smith and State streets)
Friday May 12 - 2pm to 8pm
Saturday May 13 - 10am to 7pm
Sunday May 14 - 2pm to 6pm
May 20-23 2006
During the The International Contemporary Furniture Fair at
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center Blockparty will be open
at select times to be posted soon.
KBP :: Design Week Show
May 18 - 28, 2006
@ KBP

On the left, Miwa Koizumi's "Erectric
Vines"
On the right Miwa's PETs and
Marc-Antoine Dupont's "Vertical Motion" photograms on the
wall
Miwa Koizumi's PETs on a black background
As part of the Firstop :: Williamsburg Design Weekend Miwa is installing the first gallery presentation of her PETs in New York! and showing a new lighting design called "Electric Vines" (white and sliver version).
KBP 235 South 1st at Roebling Street in
Williamsburg.
Subway Bedford L
Opening Reception Friday, May 19, 6-8pm
show dates: May 18 - 28, 2006
Read the Press Release
Miwa at BDDW :: porcelain creations
On going...
@ BDDW
Miwa
has been developing products, currently a series of halogen
pendant lamps for BDDW a
Brooklyn based manufacturer of fine handmade furniture with
a showroom in SOHO, Manhattan, NYC, NY.
Almost Something :: empty and full
Sept. 17th - Oct. 22nd 2005
Almost Something is an art show, which
includes concerts and movie nights. It is easy to get lost
in the imaginations of more than 20 artists including
musicians, writers, film-makers and fakes. Critics have
created 4 separate guide books with maps and an audio tour.
These are your tools, they are all unreliable, sniffing out
the fakes is up to you.
What the critics are saying about Almost Something:
Melting Pot: The work of nearly 20 artists has been melted into the fabric of the gallery space to the point where the gallery feels completely empty. Once the news was life becoming Art, today with Almost Something Art once again becomes life.
'Which tour guide would you prefer?', asks the art-hotty at the counter. "tour guide?" "prefer?" I am intrigued. Multiple tour guides have been written to lead me through very different versions of the same show. On closer inspection it seems that some projects appear in every guide, some in just a few, some in none at all. What is the Art? What am I really meant to see. I guess in the end I have to come up with the solution myself.
A la carte: Appearances aren't to be trusted and Almost Something is never quite what it seems. Offered a variety of perspectives, we, the viewers are asked to piece together the reality of this show to our own liking.
Come check out this show, there are special events every weekend, it is going to be awesome...
SAWAGUZO! :: (pronounced Sah-Wah-Goo-Zo)
Oct. 27th - Nov. 23rd 2005
Miwa was invited to
participate in a group show in Charleston, SC. She is
showing her PET
project and did a food
performance.
See also: Press
Food for Novelists :: Private dinner
May 11, 2005
conversation piece :: video portraits
May 21,22 2005
Surface to Air :: plaster liquid crystal
11/13/04 - 12/24/04
This show, curated by Eric
Shiner, brings together several artists who work with a
specific material: metalwork, weaving, Miwa is showing her
plaster work. Videos showing the creation process of each
artist will be shown. Miwa has a great new way of
presenting her video, on a hacked up laptop display! We are
going to use this type of display a lot more in the
future.
simplex complex :: audio installation
Apr -> May 2004
This was our latest collaborative
project. We love working at Flux because they really allow
us to experiment. We really pushed it with this one.
Cellphone instruments!
see the description at Flux. or, of course our project page.
Flutter :: Video, Photo Installation
Feb -> Mar 2004
Flutter, is a new photo, video
installation.
Miwa did a small food performance called 'Flakes' for the opening. She also the released of 72:44 an audio landscape CD
See also: Invitation web-page press release
Spritz-spirits :: Food Performance
Saturday, Nov. 22nd
@ Flux Factory All you can Art
Miwa's air eating experience
was at the entrance of this day long bacchanalia at
Flux Factory.
See also: NYPress article













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